The Nuffield Department of Clinical Medicine is part of the Medical Sciences Division. It hosts one of the largest groupings of Biomedical Researchers in the University Sector, and is also responsible for a significant part of the teaching of clinical medical students with the Oxford Medical School.

Posted 27/02/2015

Old Fire Station, Oxford, 8th March, 5pm-7.30pm

Come join the Nuffield Department of Medicine and Diamond Light Source for a film festival celebrating the history and development of X-ray crystallography and structural biology. Between the films, there will be opportunities to discuss the work with the featured scientists.

Posted 02/03/2015

A variety of signalling molecules ensure that the process of development from an undifferentiated ball of cells to an adult of the right size and shape proceeds according to plan. Matthias Zebisch from STRUBI, working with STRUBI co-head Yvonne Jones and other colleagues in Oxford and Jean-Paul Vincent’s group at the National Institute of Medical Resarch in Mill Hill, has discovered a unique feedback mechanism that controls one of the most important of these molecules. The result could have implications for the treatment of diseases including cancer and Alzheimer’s disease.

Posted 20/02/2015

Recent reports suggest that artemisinin drug resistance is emerging and spreading in many parts of the Asian Mekong region.

A study published today by NDM researchers in Lancet Infectious Diseases reports that the spread of artemisinin drug resistance is following the same historical route as resistance to other antimalarial drugs, chloroquine and sulfadoxine/pyrimethamine.

Public engagement is a broad term for a range of activities that connect the general public with research and researchers. Some examples of the public engagement activities that the Nuffield Department of Medicine has carried out include: podcasts, open days, taking part in local and national science festivals, involvement with schools, talks and seminars and research campaigns. Each week a different scientist tweets from our @NDMScience twitter account so you can get an insight in to life as a researcher in the Department.